Hedir Review : Quality of links and it's Importance

EventGuy · Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Posts: 6 505 Hedir Points

It seems that many now seek quality links over quantity, and that search engines value this far more, and perhaps will reward those that seek related links to their site content/theme.

It's not so much about agreeing with me on this, but about increasing these links faster, and making a site more appealing to link to. I do think that reciprocal linking is dying slowly and one-ways are now the flavour of the month. One-ways being more quality than recips.

Thoughts on this anyone?

consumerism · Joined: 09 Aug 2006 Posts: 771 21940 Hedir Points

I think people should be able to link however they like and search engines should just ignore things they don't like instead of penalising people, which just raises the stakes in all these seo / spam debates

EventGuy · Joined: 30 Aug 2006 Posts: 6 505 Hedir Points

As I understand it from the various forums on the web - many do link to anything they want anyway, but many are also rigid in the pursuit to please Google and chase links just to raise pagerank, which isn't the best use of time, when they should be building something useful.

The engines aren't going to do anything they don't want to do, and raise/lowering sites in serps, to control, so we have to buy adverts which is their major money making strategy. They manipulate listings so listings mean nothing and are basically worthless, then advertisers notice this, and panic buy adwords etc.

Google wins! Ofcourse I'm not saying they can't make a profit, but they trick and force to prise the cash, and it's pretty dirty the way they do it.

Personally, they could give something back to advertisers, but some little green bar ain't it. Free advertising on Google anyone..........

Now as far as links go, I reckon most do the right thing by obtaining lots of links, but not necessarily targeted links - which is the problem. Google demands the correct type of links, and penalises to keep it's engine, I dunno, maybe 'better' results-wise for it's searchers.

Keep the searchers happy, and they return - and visitors mean Google and others can charge more. But thing is, there are only so many good positions in a engine's serps, and once they are filled, then the other miilions of results all suffer - it's pretty obvious really. This leaves only one option left - to buy from whatever engine.

Thus the free serps option is very naff, yet so many fight for it. hmmmmm